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Sun, Aug 02, 2009

Deck Jack

Posted at 8:42 am MDT to Miscellaneous

The deck outside my bedroom looks crooked to me, but that is because it has been sloped in the other direction for so many years. It is actually level now (I checked with an actual level).

The deck was built oddly, like so much about this house. It doesn't have ordinary posts holding it up, but is cantilevered off the main house structure. And the cantilever support is off center, so the deck has torqued over the years.

Yesterday while I was at farmers' market I got a call from a guy at the company that is supposed to repair the deck. He wanted to try jacking the deck so they could start to judge how extensive the repairs were going to need to be. By the time I got home from market, he had been and gone, and the deck was propped and leveled.

It looks to me like we are in pretty good shape to put in the permanent supports (actual support posts to keep it from torquing again) and the new railing, without having to dismantle and rebuild the whole deck. I suppose I'll learn the official verdict next week.

I am psyched to get this done. I can't really work on the parts of the landscaping farther from the house until the counctruction work near the house is done.

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